I have an upset seller who is seeing a "free shipping" on her display. I do not have any free shipping offered. This has happened before, but I just sent an apology letter to the buyers, thinking that it was some temporary glitch, or that they had missed the link to the estimated shipping. I've gotten enough of these that I thought I better check on it.

This last person says that I'm advertising free shippng, but when she goes to purchase, she is charged shipping.

I've asked her for a screen shot from her devise, am hoping she provides one. I have gone and double checked to see that I didn't accidentally tick the wrong button and have taken screenshots of both my admin product page and the customer display page and all seems correct.

Does anyone know what could cause this to happen or what I can do to prevent it?

[quote]Thank you for your email. With USPS calculated shipping, if the buyer is
viewing the item on Google shopping, the shipping will not show until the
buyer clicks on the link and is taken to your store, where the shipping
shows USPS calculated shipping.

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I wrote back about one in the past that had actually gone through with no shipping charged (and I had just gone ahead and shipped it at a loss, since the shipping was more than the price of the item). I got an reply back that I don't quite understand, waiting for a clarification.

I will say that they are very fast at replying. I hate to bug them, since they obviously don't charge very much for their services. I really appreciate their speed of reply.

When you selected Calculated Shipping for your store you need to provide a backup shipping. This can be the shipping matrix, flat rate shipping, or a combination of the two for your store. This backup will be used for those times when the USPS website is slow or down. Otherwise, your buyer will be charged $0.00 shipping and the eCrater rules don't allow sellers to bill for additional postage after the buyer has paid.

Since there is no way for Google Shopping to know where the buyer and seller are located, eCrater uses your backup shipping in the free feed they send to Google Shopping. If you have no backup shipping, your item will show Free Shipping in Google Shopping. Then the customer will see the shipping charge after they arrive on the item page.

Thank you! I have in the meantime, received a repy from ecrater saying the same thing, except that I'm a dolt and I can't figure out how to fill this backup method. I'll go check the link you sent me and see if it has an explanation for how to fill in these blanks.

I wanted to add a reminder for anyone reading this topic that the checkout system will always look for the USPS Calculated Shipping first. If the USPS doesn't respond AND for the Google Shopping feed, the system looks to the item page to see the backup selected for that item; Free Shipping, Weight Matrix, or Flat Rate. If you select Flat Rate Shipping To, the boxes will appear to add your flat rate shipping for that item. If Weight Matrix is selected, then the system will go to the matrix which is used storewide. Any one of these three can be used as a backup on a PER ITEM base. Just remember, if you are using USPS Calculated it over-rides any choice made on the individual item page, BUT the choice on the individual item page will be used for the Google Shopping feed and as the back-up if the USPS website is down.